Back on Track

So I started this blog in my adventure of trying to transition from vegetarianism to veganism. I also wanted to answer everyone's questions like "You're vegan? So what CAN you eat?" I wanted to show everyone that my diet is probably more delicious and varied then they could imagine.  All the literature I read makes perfect sense to me, and it's something I feel strongly about, but willpower at family functions, and eating out just goes out the door.  While finishing my last semester of classes at school before student teaching in the fall my stress got the best of me and I ate whatever was around. Including cheese and eggs galore!

Now that I have some more "me" time my plan is to get back on track.  I want my calories to count, and I want to make delicious food all summer. Also, to answer the most common question ever asked. I get my protein and calcium from plants.  It's as simple and easy as that.  I also get plenty of B12, Omega 3s and iron. Thankyouverymuch.

Here's an example. My breakfast this morning.
Molasses, chia seeds and peanut butter in oatmeal with a side of kale and nutritional yeast.


Oatmeal (fiber, protein, etc.) with peanut butter (protein) chia seeds (protein, omegas and all kinds of other stuff) and blackstrap molasses (excellent source of iron).  I also had a side of kale which I just microwaved for about 45 seconds, and I sprinkled it with B12 rich nutritional yeast.

I. Love. Kale.




 If you haven't hopped on the kale bandwagon yet... here is what you can find with each serving according to WebMD: One cup of kale contains 36 calories, 5 grams of fiber, and 15% of the daily requirement of calcium and vitamin B6 (pyridoxine), 40% of magnesium, 180% of vitamin A, 200% of vitamin C, and 1,020% of vitamin K. It is also a good source of minerals copper, potassium, iron, manganese, and phosphorus.

I made some oatmeal, walnut, mushroom, kale burgers last night that were the best veggie burger I'd ever had! I ate them all up before remembering to take a picture, so in the meantime here is a link to the recipe! Walnut Mushroom Kale Burgers
The only thing I did differently is I dipped them in whole wheat breadcrumbs after refrigeration and put them on the indoor grill/panini press thing.